Hi Andrew, if there is any update on the matter, I would of course love to hear about it. Unfortunately, I never received an answer to my question, but maybe I picked the wrong list. Thank you for your support on this issue! Regards, Rafael
2016-01-21 10:07 GMT+01:00 Andrew Dinn <ad...@redhat.com>: > Hi Rafael, > > On 01/12/15 12:45, Rafael Winterhalter wrote: >> I can tell that this behavior has not only affected me as I had this >> question comming up by multiple users of my open-source code generation >> library. >> >> What is your view on this? >> >> Thank you for your feedback! > > I have an interest in this issue because I lead a Java agent-based > project (Byteman). I have not (yet) come across a case where the > behaviour you describe has affected the operation of my agent -- I > suspect that is because it will never attempt to transform a class > defined via Unsafe::defineAnonymousClass. However, I agree with you that > this behaviour appears anomalous and the outcome you describe is > counter-intuitive. I would be very interested to know if there was a > good reason for excluding anonymous classes from transformation. > > regards, > > > Andrew Dinn > ----------- > Senior Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat UK Ltd > Registered in UK and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 > Directors: Michael Cunningham (US), Michael O'Neill (Ireland), Paul > Argiry (US)